With Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang [McDonald's] experience comes to the fore, constructing a film that packs into a feature length running time an impactful and engaging look at this fine subject.&dash; ScreenAnarchy - EDIT

Roma represents a certain kind of cinematic peak, where on both production and story grounds we're treated to something that nears perfection the way that only the truly great works do. &dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

Great music, great performances, a doomed love story with plenty of heart on display, A Star Is Born really is a triumph, a reminder that sometimes playing the hits can really bring the house down.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

A film that will affect you deeply both emotionally and intellectually. This is great cinema, and it proves unequivocally that Jenkins is one of the great filmmakers of his generation.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

A moving, warm film that neither pulls its punches nor revels in misanthropy, MOUTHPIECE is an exceptional work, one that feels very much a perfect vehicle for the best of Rozema's craft and proclivities.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

illiam's latest may not equal his greatest works, but they speak to their qualities, and remind us all to take chances and learn that sometimes the most ridiculous of quests is often reward in and of itself. &dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

So with Solo we get a backstory that manages moments of greatness while the rest of the film feels, well, "forced". That bad feeling I had about this seems to have been on target.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

For those who feel this to be insufferable it's an understandable position. For others, this may be one of the more affecting and memorable films they're to see in some time. &dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

Blackkklansman is an excoriating, unapologetic s--- on the chest of Trumpians and their nativist agenda, and may well serve as one of the defining films of this era just as Birth of a Nation and Gone With The Wind did in theirs.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

Akin to flipping the channels rapidly while hearing the droning at a Swiss mental institution where one of the inmates mutters about meaning and scrawling obscenities and profundities on the wall. But that's the way Monsieur Godard wants it to be.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

We're treated to some fine moments between Lizze and Bridget, a bombastic murder sequence that stands above all else, and the rest a jumble of parlour drama and period piece breadcrumbs.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

Caustic, hilarious, and wonderfully effective, Burnham's Eighth Grade may drum up anxious feelings long buried, but it does so with a wit and intelligence that's unbeatable. &dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

It feels a bit like fate, as if Tan and her friend's work needed to buried only to be unearthed when the time was right, when a dash of nostalgia and the self-critical aptitude gained through adulthood can properly situate this strange work.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

An exercise in dramatic tension, character drama and creepy, cultish horror, Hereditary is a fascinating hybrid that nourishes our desires to be entertained, thrilled and emotionally impacted all at once.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

American Animals brilliantly confronts the epistemological conundrum at the heart of crafting truthful non-fiction while simultaneously undercutting the tools that fiction films use to elevate these based-on-life tales. &dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT

It's a work that opens up discussion as much as it illustrates divides, and in so doing so does more than many to properly articulate both the challenges and strengths of building this or any community.&dash; ThatShelf.com - EDIT